Month: October 2006
The Return of the Classical Comic Strip
Parallel to the renaissance of satirical vintage "gentlemen" magazines like The Chap or The Slingshot, there seems to...
The War of the Words: The Story of the 101st Fighting Keyboarders
Just spotted this via P45, a biting multimedia satire of the conservative armchair bloggers that have supported the...
Out of place animal: Sevengill shark caught off Irish coast
"An aggressive shark normally found in the Pacific or off the warm waters of Africa at this time...
Little White Men Seen In Fjord
Here's a strange story about a mass hallucination from Aftenposten dated 18 May 2006, that I've only just...
Big Cat Update: Something Wild in Ulster?
Three years ago, Blather told of the media frenzy about big cat reports - most of which were...
Iceland restarts commercial whaling – tell them not to!
Bad news, kids: Iceland has granted a commercial license to hunt 39 whales - nine of which are...
Suicidal Canines
Dogs in the small town of Milton in Scotland have mysteriously been jumping tp their deaths from the...
The cat that thinks it is a pigeon
When Wendy Hobbs spotted a cat up a tree in her garden a week ago, she was tempted...
Canadian army gets lost in Marijuana Jungle
Pass the Kalashnikov on the left-hand side. Canadian soldiers, charged with hunting down Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, have...